Prof. Dr. Jörg Niewöhner

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9034-9761

Jörg Niewöhner is Professor for the Anthropology of Human-Environment Relations at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is also director of the Integrative Research Institute Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys). He conducts ethnographic research on the question of how societal relations with nature are changing in the Anthropocene. His research focuses on sustainability, climate impacts and environmental justice on the one hand, and on planetary health, urban mental health and the impact of new life science knowledge on society on the other.

Projects

10/2020 - 09/2023	Urban Everyday Life of People with Experience of Psychosis: A Collaborative-Ethnographic Project with Anthropology and Psychiatry
06/2020 - 12/2025	Water Security for Whom? – Social and Material Perspectives on Inequality around Multipurpose Reservoirs in Colombia
03/2019 - 06/2019	Preparatory workshop for "Water security for whom? - Social and meaterial perspectives on inequality around multipurpose reservoirs in Colombia"
03/2019 - 02/2023	Food for the Future – food4future
01/2019 - 12/2025	EXC 2025: Matters of Activity. Image Space Material
07/2018 - 10/2025	Sommeruniversität Universität Toronto
03/2017 - 02/2020	Entwicklung eines telemetrisch multisensorischen Dekubitus-Prophylaxe-Systems – Teilvorhaben: Ethische, rechtliche und soziale Implikationen von Technologie-Entwicklung (ELSI)
08/2014 - 12/2017	BeMobil – Bewegungsfähigkeit und Mobilität wiedererlangen
10/2013 - 10/2016	Societal Engagement in Science, Mutual learning in Cities
06/2010 - 04/2016	The production of chronicity in mental health care and research in Berlin